Lets see if you want him to stick around as an ongoing contributor. You know the rules…comment here on or facebook (or both) with the word WIN if you want to keep him around! Show some support for Spencer and the rest of our contestant finalists!

— Spencer’s Post follows —

Title - Talkin About Practice…

Noblesse is just killing it in the vanning/subcompact market in Japan. You can’t lose with parts from Noblesse – all style and high quality here. The height of JDM luxury style/VIP style tuning is hit hard with this company’s products. They represent the tuners that want to drive something a bit more comfortable with space and practicality, not to mention better gas mileage. And why would you not want to drive something along those lines? Be different – I dare you!

Pictured above is their demo Honda Odyssey equipped with original aero parts (Lux series), grille, rear splitter, and exhaust among other countless goodies. Noblesse goes with some high offset 19″ Rojam wheels here – and they work perfectly.

Different model Odyssey built by Noblesse. I love the way that their body kit integrates so smoothly with the design of the car. Looks OEM, but with just a bit more finesse to it.

Another model from Honda is this new Fit. Again, Noblesse does well in keeping the lines of the car with their aero parts and integrated fog lamps. I have never seen such a small car look so sinister… Again, this is the LUX line of aero parts, parted together with a flush set of Garson wheels.

A little bit of behind the scenes here with the clay molding prototype.

We can’t forget about the beloved bB – there are a few examples equipped with this aero in the US. Noblesse equips their demo car with their aero kit and some high offset wheels again, a route not often traveled among VIP-style tuners; but they make it work.

Here is a Step Wagon that has been prepared by Noblesse. A trend can be found with their aero parts – low, mean, and elegant. Adding bits of chrome and fog lights can truly make a huge difference on a car’s appearance.

The voting rules are here: http://www.bespokeventures.com/blog/2009/07/08/blogger-search-update-1-the-competition-details/

In short - if you want to see this blogger stay as an ongoing contributor here you will need to comment with the word “WIN” to this post. You may comment here, or on our facebook page or both for your vote to count! We need your participation! You may vote for multiple contestants, in fact I encourage it!

About this contestant - Matt runs a blog called Farm of Minds. His blog routinely features some great cars and I’ve been a regular reader of his blog for a while now. I was honored when he came to us to apply to become a blogger here! For those that enjoy his content, please cast your vote by commenting with the word WIN!

— Matt’s Post Follows —

I always thought that I have already seen every combination of body kits possible, but I was surprised when I saw something like this JDM Subaru Impreza WRX STi. First sight told me that the car has a l’aunsport WRC inspired wide body conversion but that is not completely true. It seems that those fenders are bodyshop Takata WRC replica fenders (l’aunsport fenders are bit different) and to fit the wide fenders there is GD-WRC ‘05 front bumper which is very similar to l’aunsport’s but as the owner says it’s Burn Up bumper.

To match the wide stance of the car the l’aunsport rear spoiler is the right choice! You can also notice Akira Makoto Kai rear diffuser. I would put some 18″ wheels on that monster but 17″x9j+28 Work Emotion xc8 wheels are perfect on this car. Definitely one of the best looking Impreza WRX STi v8 and if I would/will go for wide body, this Subaru Impreza would be my reference!

Last month I put together two posts of interesting things found during my last trip to the mid east. Today I’ll finish up the trilogy with a feature on one of the best home garages I’ve ever seen.

At first look, this garage looks like a very nicely detailed 4 car garage. On its own, that would be something to admire…yet this garage fits 8 cars and does so in style!

If you click on the above image you’ll notice that the squeeky clean new Lamborghini Gallardo LP-560 sits beneath a Mercedes G-Class.

In all four of the bays, sitting behind the motorized heavy metal doors are lifts to allow the luxury and exotic cars fit one on top of the other.

I think another closer look is needed:

I dont want to give away too much about the car collection to the point that someone could identify who the owner is…but just have a look at a fraction of this collection. Here in the above picture sits a Gemballa Mirage GT (Modified Porsche Carrera GT) which is underneath a Mercedes Benz McLaren SLR 722 Edition. As you can imagine, the other four cars are equally as spectacular and well modified.

They have truly put together a dream garage for their home! Granted they have other garages, some much bigger, but what has impressed me is that this is a useable garage located at their home with a quality design. It is much easier to build a warehouse type garage than to build something on site at someone’s home, this is one of the best home garages I’ve seen.

This concludes my photos of my last trip to the mid east. I’d love to show more from the trip but I must respect my friends over there and not give away too much behind the scenes. They like to keep their anonimity. Thats all until the next trip perhaps…

So the time has come to announce the competition and how this is going to work exactly.

Goal Of This - The Real JDM will expand with more content and more unique perspectives into the world of Japanese tuning that we all love. We will carefully select one or multiple new contributors to the blog going forward. The selection will be done with the reader’s involvement in the entire process.

The competition: I will screen the applicants and present to you the finalists. Expect no more than 5 finalists. Each finalist will have one blog post published here. You, the reader will get to vote for the ones you’d like. We will then take your votes into consideration as well as our own review and we’ll determine which contributors will stay on as future bloggers. You may vote for multiple people if you’d like, there’s nothing wrong with that.

How the competition works is simple: When a blog is posted by a contestant, if you want to see them stay then comment on the blog post with your approval by saying “WIN”. By saying WIN your vote will be counted. Even better, if you can add the reason for the WIN (what you liked in particular) it’ll help us learn more and fine tune the future content of the blog.

You may submit your “WIN” comments both here on the blog or on our facebook page (we will count both, so if you really care a lot to see someone win you should post your WIN on both for an extra point): http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bulletproof-Automotive-GT-RR-Bespoke-Ventures/91893123527

We then will review the # of collective WIN comments for each applicant and announce a winner. The winner will be guaranteed a role as a regular contributor on the blog.

You the reader will have your say in what the future of the blog looks like. So speak up when you see something you like!

PS - Any last minute submissions to the blogger search are still welcome. Email me your best material to be considered here: ben@bulletproofautomotive.com

The Benz G Class is one of those cars that never seems to change. With a life span comparable to the Lotus Esprit, the G Class has outlived numerous decades of design and techological change. With a history of textbook function over looks philosophy, one has to look in amazement at this modified G Class.

The G Classless as I’ll refer to it, was modified by a private owner (I’m presuming) who felt that what the G Class really needed was a E Class front end. I think any good friend would tell you that doing this is a terrible idea, but somehow nobody warned of what it would end up as.

So here we go, your hater fodder for the day. The G Classless Benz.

Original Source: http://www.autogespot.com/en/item/733/very-exclusive-mercedes-benz-ge-class/

I was impresed when I saw he is having fun designing other, non-car related things. I will feature some of his other (older) designs later, but for now here is his latest creation. It is a full custom designed leather camera case.

Kanayama-san first penned the concept and then sought to find the highest quality materials to produce his dream camera case. Looking at the leather, stitching, interior and all small details you can tell that Kanayama was in charge of keeping his legendary quality on this new item. One detail of interest - the interior is produced in alcantara, the same as he uses on ASM Recaro seats.

This side project of Kanayama-san’s is actually available for sale in limited numbers of the four colors above (although unsurprisingly not cheap). If anyone is interested just contact me and I’ll get you set up.

Lately I’ve been watching the classic car marketplace with great interest. Prices of cars that were made on simple Detroit assembly lines 50 years ago have appreciated in value incredibly and prices seem to be holding relatively steady despite problems in much of the economy. Some records are even being set. The car above just became the most expensive car to ever ell at auction. It seems people truly want these cars to the point that they are willing to make sacrifices to afford them even when money is tight.

Short of a time machine, there’s no way of knowing what cars from today will be classics tomorrow, but some cars of today have almost uncanny similarities to classics. One example is the Penske Trans-Am Camaros and the Realtime Racing Speed Touring Car Integras. Both cars dominated the SCCA’s pro racing class for cars that were very closely based on street cars that were popular with young people at the time, have distinctive paint schemes and were campaigned extremely well. There are many others and it’s very interesting to spend some time thinking about what outdated cars of today will be lighting the collector car world on fire tomorrow.

As the international office for Top Secret sometimes we get asked for various favors from Top Secret Japan. Recently we’ve been asked to see if we can help them sell their D1GP Z33 350Z. Top Secret is looking for a quick and uncomplicated sale. They are taking a HUGE loss on this, but it is time for them to R&D more new parts and much like our office here they too have more cars than they need and are looking to trim down.

The car is a beast - 600ps at the wheels at 7200rpm, 3.2L VQ30 engine with JUN internals, One-Off titanium piping,  HKS S15 Sequential Transmission, everything just modified to the max.

Check out the custom work (plus the awesome Bulletproof Automotive sticker dyno proven at 10hp!):

This is priced for a quick sale - to make an offer email me ben@topsecretjpn.com

The car is sold FOB Chiba, Japan (for pickup at Top Secret Japan). The car is right hand drive and a full race prep vehicle. We will not be doing any consultation or support for export. The purchase is designed to be quick and simple, so if you want it please make an offer and be ready to bank wire payment and arrange for pickup of the car in Japan.

Word is that Citroen will build a handful of these crazy concept cars that Gran Turismo’s Yamauchi-san designed. The price tag is beyond one million USD, which for a car like this is actually more reasonable than what Lamborghini was charging for the Reventon. The design on this car is super controversial and regardless of a love it or hate it perspective, it is the most ground breaking design I’ve perhaps ever seen.

Here are a couple of my favorite pics (I posted about this car’s mirrors before which were my favorite pics)

Thanks to Autoblog for the inspiration and pics.

Here’s some eye candy that I happen to really love at the moment. Horacio Pagani can do no wrong. He is an automotive god.